Pakistan protests

Pakistan protests

Wally Santana / AP Photo

Opposition supporters are crowded into a mobile police jail after being arrested during a demonstration against President Pervez Musharraf on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday. At week's end, the U.S. was sending Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte to Pakistan to urge Musharraf to step down as army chief and abandon his 2-week-old emergency decree.

Opposition supporters are crowded into a mobile police jail after being arrested during a demonstration against President Pervez Musharraf on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday. At week's end, the U.S. was sending Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte to Pakistan to urge Musharraf to step down as army chief and abandon his 2-week-old emergency decree. (Wally Santana / AP Photo)

Opposition supporters are crowded into a mobile police jail after being arrested during a demonstration against President Pervez Musharraf on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday. At week's end, the U.S. was sending Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte to Pakistan to urge Musharraf to step down as army chief and abandon his 2-week-old emergency decree.